Last Frost Day

Frost history / Baxley 5NNW, GA

Baxley 5NNW, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00090670, 2004 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 213 ft, 31.841, -82.376. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 25Nov 12
EarliestFeb 14 (2012)Nov 3 (2014)
LatestApr 9 (2007)Dec 14 (2004)
Trend1.8 days later per decade12.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data1112

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 1520102005: Mar 32006: Mar 272007: Apr 92008: Mar 252009: Mar 52010: Mar 82011: Mar 122012: Feb 142013: Mar 272014: Mar 272015: Mar 29

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 2620102004: Dec 142005: Nov 192006: Nov 42007: Nov 82008: Nov 192009: Dec 62010: Nov 62011: Nov 122012: Nov 92013: Nov 132014: Nov 32015: Nov 24

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2015Mar 29Nov 24Feb 21Nov 24
2014Mar 27Nov 3Mar 15Nov 19
2013Mar 27Nov 13Mar 4Nov 14
2012Feb 14Nov 9Feb 14Nov 25
2011Mar 12Nov 12Feb 13Nov 12
2010Mar 8Nov 6Mar 7Nov 8
2009Mar 5Dec 6Mar 5none
2008Mar 25Nov 19Feb 28Nov 19
2007Apr 9Nov 8Apr 8Dec 17
2006Mar 27Nov 4Feb 14Dec 5
2005Mar 3Nov 19Jan 25Dec 22
2004no dataDec 14no dataDec 15

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.